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Hydraulic fracturing in other words fracking is a technique used to extract natural gas from rocks. In the deeper layer within the earth, about 7000 feet below, rocks like shale contains gases, water and oil in their pores. Drilling companies carry out a horizontal drilling to the rock layer along with a traditional vertical drilling to create new routes or to extend the existing pipes for the extraction of natural gas. They allow these gases to escape by injecting a fluid under high pressure…

For many years now there has been a political debate raging through our nation. On one side, there are those that believe in climate change and that humans have contributed to its rise. Many others, however, believe that this is a just not true, and perhaps even a hoax. To solve this debate, there needs to be a mutual understanding on both sides of it, which in turn progresses society in one direction or another in the hopes of a better tomorrow. Reaching this mutual understanding is possible…

POLLUTION The pollution that is produced through our current energy generation techniques is terrifying. With dangerous pollutants such as mercury, arsenic, lead, and selenium all coming from different forms of coal, how do we prevent these pollutants? As well, one must remember the problem with carbon emissions. Coal is anywhere from 35 to 86% carbon (Fox, 2014). This produces dangerous greenhouse gases that lead to rising ocean currents, ocean acidification, and rising yearly average…

37. NASA,Global climate change (https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/) Certain gases in the atmosphere block heat from escaping primarily water vapor and including much smaller amounts of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous…

Global warming is a rise in temperature in the troposphere that may lead to climate change. Global climate change is a much broader term that discusses changes in any part of the climate on Earth. These changes could occur in temperature, precipitation, or storm intensity. A change in global climate could be a warning or a cooling of the temperature. Often associated with global warming is the Greenhouse effect. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere can trap and hold heat from the sun.…

The global consequences of increased levels in carbon monoxide and methane due to the melting permafrost cause warming in polar regions and unpredictable behavior of the northern jet stream. According to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the changes in climate cause adverse side effects; such as summers becomes longer…

The innocence of a child is something nothing can compare to, we would never think to harm them or put them in danger. They are fragile, they have no defense other than a parents protection and love. But what if the resources they needed to survive slowly started disappearing and thing things that brought us joy were taken away from them because of the people that said they would never hurt them. Can we apologize in advance for something we turned away from because we felt it wasn 't our problem…

techniques colliers had to use in order to seek out danger was much less than ideal, and is an example of the lack of technology in underground mines to keep the miners themselves safe. Fatality or injury was a very real concern when working in the mines. Methane gas would seep into the mines and occasionally build enough pressure to collapse rock and coal onto the miners. The dust created by picking would linger in the air causing minors to breathe in toxins, causing both chronic and acute…

planet’s lower atmosphere, due to the transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the surface. Some greenhouse gases that cause global warming are water vapor, ozone, carbon dioxide, and methane. Now that we know what the greenhouse effect is, we can better understand what global warming is. So what is global warming, and what are the causes and effects of global warming? Greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide, in the…

Are Humans Causing Climate Change? It is all happening; melting polar ice caps, droughts, wildfires, extreme weather, and more, all thanks to climate change. Climate change is the change in the usual weather found somewhere. It can also be the change of the Earth’s usual climate. An example of a climate change could be the amount of rainfall a place used to get to the amount it is now receiving. This change in weather is caused by the human race. Humans are selfish; they only do things for…